Yesterday a friend was requesting a MYSQL/PHP Consultant to speed up his websites, and today I was reading few comments and solutions on his facebook : Use APC, mem_cache for PHP, mysql query caching, use nginx instead of Apache, Use mysqli extension instead of adodb or mysql extension … etc. Of course all of these [...]

Part of Yesser e-Gov program an interoperability framework called YEFI. The framework concern any entity that exchange data and integrate services for the consumption and benefit of the public. From yesser website, YEFI is defined as “a unified framework to implement e-government. It includes cross – governmental specifications and policies, to enable cross – governmental [...]

I assisted today at the Efficient Edge 2010 conference organized by Wipro in a partnership with Sun/Oracle. The conference was held today in Intercontinental Jeddah from 8h30 to 13h30. Sincerely beside the commercial aspect of the conference, it was really very informative, and it was a pleasure to meet few names from Sun Microsystems mainly Iyad Al-Bukhari, Andy Clark, and Thomas Bretscher.

Ten years ago, e-Government was a term that every Government started working hardly to study, implement, and understand better how new information technologies could help making better Government services for people. Things started with legislations and laws in different countries, and step by step we started seeing countries embracing the e-Government concept 100%.

Today I’m giving a talk in the second Jeddah Geeks Meetup about web accessibility from 8 to 8.30PM. Below the first slide teaser, the entire presentation will be available after the show. Hope to see you all there. Title : Practical Web Accessibility Description : Though estimates vary, most studies find that about one fifth [...]

One of the web applications that I have deployed in the last year in a Government institution is using Internet explorer mainly as web client. Even if the web application was mainly based on open source technologies, I had to deal with closed source issues. Using windows as terminal for a web application is not [...]